The US on a slow slide into Fascism.

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The US on a slow slide into Fascism.
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Mon, 10-13-2008 - 12:45pm

http://www.oldamericancentury.org/14pts.htm


If you have any doubt about what the GOP is all about,

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Registered: 03-26-2003
Mon, 10-13-2008 - 1:11pm
Oh great! So if McCain wins we are on our way to fascism and if Obama wins islamo-marxism.
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Registered: 06-27-2007
Mon, 10-13-2008 - 1:20pm
It's not the right in this country trying to silence political speech. We don't want the Fairness Doctrine or campus speech codes - that's your side.
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Registered: 08-25-2008
Mon, 10-13-2008 - 3:59pm

I forget... is this site moonbat or wingnut?


Fascism and Rumors of Fascism

During the 2004 election cycle, an email chain letter began circulating, attributed to one "Dr. Lawrence Britt, a political scientist," who had apparently written a 14-point article listing the defining characteristics of fascist regimes. There was something to the email, and we'll get to it in a minute, but first let's address a few misconceptions. First of all, there is no "Dr. Lawrence Britt." The author of the 14-point fascism inventory, Laurence Britt, is a former corporate executive who wrote and published a dystopian novel about right-wing extremism, titled June 2004, during the height of the Lewinsky scandal. That is, to the best of my knowledge, his only published volume.

In the real June 2004, he achieved some level of fame with an op-ed published in the humanist magazine Free Inquiry. This op-ed was forwarded around from inbox to inbox, and readers eventually began putting a "Dr." in front of his name and referring to him as a political scientist who had compiled the fascism inventory independently of the Bush administration. He had not done so, and had never claimed to do so. The article was, and had always been intended to be, an argument against the Bush administration.


OOPS.... .